What does persistence object means in Hibernate architecture?

Question

Hibernate is a persistence framework which is used to persist data from Java environment to database.

I am so confused.. if we persist a

Answer 1

Persistant objects are the classes that in your program that has a representation in the database.

Example if you have a Car class with the properties NumberPlate, Fuel. The NHibernate configuration will map this to for example a table in the database that is named Car and has these columns corresponding to the Car class properties.